Painter s combination pot-hook



(NoModL) I Y L. KENT.

I PAINTERS COMBINATION POT 1100K." 1 No. 376,825. v ,PatentedJan. 24, 1888.

1 UNITED STATES P TENT OFFICE...

LEE KENT, OF HOT SPRINGS ARKANSA SA PAINTERS COM BINATION POT-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent Np. 376,825, dated January 24,1888.

Application filed September 5, 1887. Serial Xo. 148,898. (No model.)

T0 at whom; it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LEE KENT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hot Springs, in the county of Garland and State of Arkansas, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in a Painters Pot-Hook; and I do declare the followingto be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,'such as will enable others skilled in the art towhich it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in" 7 ing, upon which to hang a pot; second, to provide a combination-tool that will embrace asmany tools ordinarily used by painters as can be made in one structure. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents the entire tool, in which A is a putty-knife, B a bit, and D and E a pot-hook. F is a glass-cutter; O, a stage-fastener, as will be more fully described hereinafter.

Fig. 2 represents the. tool in use as a pothook upon the wall; Fig.3, as used on the roof for climbing; Fig. 4, as a sticker, to be used while sitting on a roof; Fig. 5, as used upon the ladder for a p0t-hook.

To use this tool as apot-hook on the wall, place the knife A under the siding or Weatherboard or between the windo w-sash; Then place the paint-pot on the hook D, and the weight of the pot forces the bit B into the wall, and the more weight placed on the hook D the tighter itwill 1101a, and the hook win befound I very useful in painting. a gable end or peak..

In using three hooks stick one of them 011 0 .each side of you, under the weather-board ing. Then place your body color on one and trimming color on the other. Then use the third hook anywhere upon the wall to holdto, or to steady yourself while upon thetop of the ladder. To use the hook'as a roof-climber, place it on the toe of the boot or shoe, with hooks D. E on top and knife A under the foot. Thenfasten the tool in this position with a strong cord or leather strap, after which stand erect, and the bit B will keep you from slipping when walking on the roof. When sit; ting on the roof, turn the hook on the leftfoot I to the outside without changing the tie.

I make no claim to the steel-wheel glass- 6 cutter; but as the patentonrthis cutter, expire d on June 8, 1886, I desire to add it to my hook as a feature of general utility.

To use the hook as'a swinging-stage fastener,

place the knife A under the weather-boarding and throw a loop over the hook-fastenei-O, making it fast to the stage; It can. also be used over, under, and between window-sash to tie in a swinging stage, (a thing which all painters using a swinging stage are compelled 5 to do in some manner.) This tool does away with the putty-knife and wire hook which the, painter has always been compelled to carry, and provides a pot-hook, putty-knife, glasscutter, roof sticker and climber, and a stages I LEE KENT; Witnesses:

W. P. GoopwIN,

' W. A. SPROEY. 

